After the Genome A Language for Our Biotechnological Future

Name: After the Genome A Language for Our Biotechnological Future
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ISBN: 9781602586857

ISBN-10: 1602586853

ISBN-13: 9781602586857

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael J. Hyde, James A. Herrick

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Biotechnological advancements during the last half-century have forced humanity to come to grips with the possibility of a post-human future. The ever-evolving opinions about how society should anticipate this biotechnological frontier demand a language that will describe our new future and discuss its ethics.After the Genomebrings together expert voices from the realms of ethics, rhetoric, religion, and science to help lead complex conversations about end-of-life care, the relationship between sin and medicine, and the protection of human rights in a post-human world.With chapters on the past and future of the science-warfare narrative, the rhetoric of care and its effect on those…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 339
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

James A. Herrick is Guy Vander Jagt Professor of Communication at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He has also written The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists (University of South Carolina Press), Argumentation (Strata), The History and Theory of Rhetoric (Allyn & Bacon) and The Making of the New Spirituality (IVP Books).



Acknowledgments


Editors' Introduction: A Language for Our Biotechnological Future: Rhetoric, Religion, Science, and Ethics




Faith in Science: Professional and Public Discourse on Regenerative Medicine




From Arrowsmith to Atwood: How Did We Come to Disrespect Science?




The "Warfare" of Science and Religion and Science's Ethical Profile




Is There a Human Nature? An Argument against Modern Excarnation




Crossing Frontiers of Science: Trespassing into a Godless Space or Fulfilling Our Manifest Destiny?




The Angels and Devils of Representing Prozac




"Leave Your Medicine Outside": Bioethics, Spirituality, and the Rhetoric of Appalachian Serpent Handlers




Biovaluable Stories and a Narrative Ethics of Reconfigurable Bodies




Blacks and the Language of Their Biotechnological Future




Bioethics, Economism, and the Rhetoric of Technological Innovation




Technologies of the Self at the End of Life: Pastoral Power and the Rhetoric of Advance Care Planning




Suffering and the Rhetoric of Care



Notes


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Contributors


Index